I also know that to some, any new discovery that fits in a spot where a rational person would say there was a missing link creates in the mind of the True Believer nothing more than TWO gaps, one on either side of the former gap.
True. 150 years of looking and the theory isn't proven by the bones, and the paleontologists argue against it whenever the biologists pull them into a conference. Something about the evidence not being there . . .